BevLive: time to get serious

I am writing this blog on my iPhone and emailing the entries to Heather, who is cleaning them up a bit and then posting. Since each entry Is done on a 2" x 4" keyboard, typed with one finger, they are tending to the short side. Aren't you all lucky. On a positive note, I'm getting to be a brilliant one-handed typist. (Note from Heather–I'm the one adding the goofy titles, so please don't blame Bev for those!)

Today was pretty much a reprise of yesterday. We got a bit of a late start but again took the ewes up to the big field and did long outruns, with Amanda and me on opposite ends from yesterday. Today's top performer was Amanda's fifteen-month-old Star pup, Roz. She handled both the difficult, rather heavy sheep and the outrun with aplomb. Very impressive.

My two Open dogs weren't nearly so clever, both wanting to run way too wide. Bill wasn't stopping well , which on the next-to-last practice is not very reassuring.

Mirk waiting for his Outrun turn next to my dirt bike.

After running a bunch of errands in town, we spent the afternoon helping our wonderful hostess with a bunch of odd jobs she needed done.

At 3:00, finding ourselves hot and tired, we grabbed our tubes and headed back to the river. This time Amanda and I left our bikes a mile downstream and floated down to them, then biked back to the truck while Marie guarded our tubes. Perfect plan.

Camping in Colorado

Just finished the evening with some perfectly grilled ribeyes at Amanda's. I don't know why everyone doesn't park next to her–she sure is a brilliant camping companion.

Amanda

I'm all hooked up again, and we take to the road tomorrow after running the dogs one more time. I'm going to try and get Bill stopping, which will certainly increase my confidence. I'm really looking forward to seeing how Mirk performs at Soldier Hollow. Keep your fingers crossed for us. He runs on Friday morning, so I won't have long to wait to get a fair indication of how the rest of the trip is likely to go. It's sure started off well.